Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-announce] [ANN] Numbers 3.0 released

2014-10-04 Thread John Cowan
Peter Bex scripsit: > I don't see how that helps. What would (+ the-biggest-medinum 1) do? > If it returns a flonum, we're back to where we are right now. That's what I'm proposing for core. And it does put us back where we are now in terms of pure Scheme operations, though in a way that both R

Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-announce] [ANN] Numbers 3.0 released

2014-10-04 Thread Peter Bex
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 04:25:16PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > I think this is the basic objection to putting unbounded bignums into > core. I mentioned before the idea of dividing bignums into smaller > ("bignum") and larger ("biggernum") versions, though "med(i)num" and > "bignum" are probably be